"So…how are things going with Alpha Linus?"
As was my customary reaction these days when anyone mentioned Valen's name, my cheeks heated. Well… all of me heated.
The …incident—that's how I referred to it in my head—with Valen had happened two days ago. If I had suspected him of avoiding me before that, I could most certainly confirm he was avoiding me now. Literally. And purposefully. He had taken to spending the last two nights at Lucas' house. A fact I had learned from Meredith.
I happened upon him yesterday after visiting Silas at the clinic. He'd seen me. He'd also seen that I saw him. And he'd turned and started in the opposite direction. I would have found the situation amusing if I hadn't been a ball of nerves. Still was in fact.
And in truth, for the first time, I wasn't the l
